I tried everything, from Esc, Ctrl-C, REISUB, even ctrl-alt-delete.

I gave up and held down the power button

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    It’s <Esc>, ‘:’ ‘q’ <Return>. ‘Esc’ to return to normal mode. ‘:’ to begin entering a command, ‘q’ to actually quit, and <Return> to send the command. For safety, vim does not allow you to quit without saving. You can either override this behaviour by appending a ‘!’ after ‘q’, to tell vim to quit without saving, or use ‘:’ ‘w’ <Return>, while in normal mode, to save the file first. Writing and quitting can be combined into ‘:’ ‘w’ ‘q’ <Return> to save and quit.

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      nano is great, however what if it is not installed and you can’t install it for what ever reason?

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        I can’t believe that there are still people that code in Vim, lol 😂. Not only that, but they encourage others to learn how to use it and code in it… WTF, I get that some people like retro stuff, but that’s just plain stupid. Why not code in ASM then, it’s retro as well 😂.

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          Because it’s super fast and beautiful. I use neovim though, not vim. Colleagues are always asking me how i can move around so fast. Well because it’s all shortcuts and since the editor responds instantly… It just happens very fast.

          It makes it a lot more fun to edit code :)

          VS code is also decent but it has that laggy feeling all the time, and it’s frustrating.

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    there’s no reason to continue this discussion, cus, I’m locking this thread.